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A pandemic is a global disease outbreak. During a pandemic, transmission can be anticipated in the workplace, not only from patient to workers in health care settings, but also among co-workers in general work settings. A pandemic would cause high levels of illness, death, social disruption, and economic loss. Everyday life would be disrupted because so many people in so many places become seriously ill at the same time. Impacts could range from school and business closings to the interruption of basic services such as public transportation and food delivery.

Study finds decrease in Canadian suicide rates during the pandemic despite increase in unemployment

The results of research into suicide rates in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic show that rates fell despite a simultaneous increase in unemployment.

23 Sep 2021

California moves on climate change, but rejects aggressive cuts to greenhouse emissions

As California trudges into another autumn marred by toxic wildfire smoke and drought-parched reservoirs, state lawmakers have cast climate change as a growing public health threat for the state's 40 million residents.

23 Sep 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The autumn of Democrats’ discontent

Democrats in Congress and the White House are feverishly negotiating to pass as much of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda as they can agree on, even as Republicans who oppose much of the increased spending threaten to shut down the government and default on the nation's debt.

23 Sep 2021

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

A recent preprint deals with the incidence and importance of long COVID in children.

23 Sep 2021

Antibody kinetics in recovered COVID-19 patients

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have been examining the kinetics of antibodies in recovered COVID-19 patients.

23 Sep 2021

Researchers to investigate suicidal behavior and self-harm among healthcare workers

A group of researchers from the University of Bristol and University College London recently collaborated in order to plan an investigation into suicidal behavior and self-harm in healthcare workers.

23 Sep 2021

The checkup is in the mail? Soliciting letter carriers to help deliver health care

Two of America's toughest problems can be tempered with one solution. The baby boom generation is graying, creating an ever-larger population of older people, many isolated, whose needs the nation is ill equipped to meet or even monitor.

23 Sep 2021

Genome modeling framework for coronavirus pathogenicity prediction

Recent machine learning techniques have allowed viral genome sequencing to be utilized in a predictive capacity.

23 Sep 2021

COVID-19 pandemic has worsened food insecurity, especially in households with children

Nearly 15 percent of U.S. households - and nearly 18 percent of households with children - reported food insecurity early in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted via social media by researchers at NYU School of Global Public Health.

23 Sep 2021

SARS-CoV-2 infection may prompt Guillain-Barré syndrome

A new paper in Brain, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that a COVID-19 infection may prompt Guillain-Barré syndrome.

23 Sep 2021

Study reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious than SARS-CoV-1

Researchers from China and Canada recently combined structural data obtained from cryo-EM and structure prediction and constructed bottom-up Martini coarse-grained models of intact envelopes of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.

22 Sep 2021

Triage protocols may increase racial disparities of treatment outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources.

22 Sep 2021

Researchers encourage longer dosing intervals for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

Researchers in Canada, Italy, and the United States have encouraged extending the interval time between two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine among individuals who have not previously been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

22 Sep 2021

Remote diabetes management using CGM and telemedicine visits can improve glycemic control

New case studies show the benefits of remote management based on continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and telemedicine visits for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

22 Sep 2021

Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps could enhance vaccine strategies

Mathematical modeling of disease spread suggests that herd immunity could be achieved with fewer vaccine doses by using Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps to identify people who have more exposure to others - and targeting them for vaccination.

22 Sep 2021

Ryans make $25 million gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health

Northwestern University Trustees and alumni Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley W. Ryan have made a $25 million gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

22 Sep 2021

COVID-19 may have had a greater impact on mental health of aging women with trauma histories

Beyond the physical dangers of COVID-19, the pandemic has wreaked havoc mentally and emotionally. A new study suggests the pandemic may have had a greater impact on the mental health of women with a history of childhood abuse or intimate partner violence (IPV) than with women without such histories.

22 Sep 2021

COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease, U-M epidemiologist says

A University of Michigan epidemiologist believes that COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease, likely in the fall and winter seasons.

22 Sep 2021

First UK-manufactured lateral flow devices rolled out to universities across England

The first UK-manufactured rapid tests - otherwise known as lateral flow devices or LFDs - are being rolled out to universities across England.

22 Sep 2021

mRNA-based and adenoviral vector-based COVID-19 vaccines elicit diverse humoral immunity

Scientists from the USA have recently compared the dynamics of humoral and cellular immune responses induced by mRNA-based and adenoviral vector-based coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. The findings reveal a difference in humoral immune responses. The study is currently available on the medRxiv* preprint server.

22 Sep 2021

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Study finds decrease in Canadian suicide rates during the pandemic despite increase in unemployment

California moves on climate change, but rejects aggressive cuts to greenhouse emissions

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The autumn of Democrats’ discontent

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

Antibody kinetics in recovered COVID-19 patients

Researchers to investigate suicidal behavior and self-harm among healthcare workers

The checkup is in the mail? Soliciting letter carriers to help deliver health care

Genome modeling framework for coronavirus pathogenicity prediction

COVID-19 pandemic has worsened food insecurity, especially in households with children

SARS-CoV-2 infection may prompt Guillain-Barré syndrome

Study reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious than SARS-CoV-1

Triage protocols may increase racial disparities of treatment outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers encourage longer dosing intervals for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

Remote diabetes management using CGM and telemedicine visits can improve glycemic control

Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps could enhance vaccine strategies

Ryans make $25 million gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health

COVID-19 may have had a greater impact on mental health of aging women with trauma histories

COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease, U-M epidemiologist says

First UK-manufactured lateral flow devices rolled out to universities across England

mRNA-based and adenoviral vector-based COVID-19 vaccines elicit diverse humoral immunity

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